Problems with frame latency with the 7950 (and apparently other 7000 series cards) were quantified late (December) last year IIRC. The result was new sets of drivers from AMD that addressed latency and not just frame rate. This was a generic issue, not specific to crossfire setups.

In February of this year, there was some notion that Crossfire may have a serious issue. Work started to quantify what exactly this was. Some time in April, AMD acknowledged that there was a problem and it had totally taken them by surprise. It has been less than a 1/2 year since then.

Nvidia has apparently been working on the FCAT toolset for something like 2 years, but how would AMD know that. Yes AMD has issues that they should be able to resolve with proper frame pacing. Yes, Nvidia figured this out well more than two years ago (kudos to them). However, it took them more than two years to get to the point where they were ready to show the world. Why do so many people expect the same out of AMD in less than 1/4 the time.

Bottom line: I don't recommend AMD for multiGPU solutions and won't until they get their lack of smoothness fixed. That has been my standpoint long before FCAT and frame latency measurements showed up on review sites as it stuttering was pretty obvious. In fact, I didn't really recommend multiGPU setups at all until the GTX200 series and I still didn't particularly like them until the GTX400 series. That all said, I don't see how people can reasonably expect AMD to fix this problem in less than half a year when Nvidia took well more than two years to do the same. Just continue dodging AMD for multiGPU setups until they get it straightened out. People who are fine with AMD multiGPU setups should still be fine with them. They didn't suddenly get any worse. It just became easier to test for the problem.Reply

For some reason this or the beta 13.10 wont seem to install on my A10-4655M with Radeon 7620G. 13.4 worked fine but this one the display driver portion either says up to date or wont show anything if I try to install from scratch...annoying...Reply